Daily Test/Public Server Announcments 9.17.1

Is there any definitive way or location that provides daily notice of whether the Public/Common Test Server is down, up or over? It's seems to be a "battle" every time someone can't login to find out this most basic of information. Russia just keeps us blind (NA)...go figure.

If it's only on the Russian sites - a lot of us "Cowboys" feel like were sitting backwards on our horses, wearing the horses own blinders. Most of us don't speak Russian.

Well, if you try to login, and it comes up with: "Failed to connect. The server may be unavailable, or your network connection settings may be wrong."; you can take that to mean that the server isn't up. There's usually an announcement on the WoT homepage when an iteration of the test server is available.

Is there any definitive way or location that provides daily notice of whether the Public/Common Test Server is down, up or over? It's seems to be a "battle" every time someone can't login to find out this most basic of information. Russia just keeps us blind (NA)...go figure.

If it's only on the Russian sites - a lot of us "Cowboys" feel like were sitting backwards on our horses, wearing the horses own blinders. Most of us don't speak Russian.

Can the NA WoT team give us any answers - at all?

I normally go on the EU forum and read everything there, they are currently working on an update as I read there. I get most of my info from the Asian site and EU forum its like they always seem to know whats happening

EDIT: oh and some EU people said the patch release date was pushed back, so there might be 3 iterations not 2. I hope it's for the new arty things they were testing in sandbox